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APPENDIX A—continued.

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1042, . 1948. 0> 0> ® , - O O H M ' a c S ° ■e Offences. f & Ss-2. te| si s-gf: ■g-fc gS a43 g . § a g a § £ 3 <A fe fc Post and Telegraph Act— continued Fraudulently secreting or detaining mis- 1 .. .. - delivered mail-bags, &c. Injuring post-office pillars or boxes . . 19 7 Damaging telegraph equipment .. 68 78 73 Posting indecent post-cards or letters .. .14 17 1.5 False statement re posting postal packet. . .. 22 22 Destitute Persons Act Failing to maintain wife or children .. 1,100 1,1-11) 1,137 Failing for fourteen days to pay maintcn- 1,830 1,44!) 1,440 ance moneys Offences by husbands while separation 16 10 10 orders are in force Offences prescribed in sections 52 to 58 of .. 4 4 Destitute Persons Act Shipping and Seamen Act Ship-desertion .. .. .. 131 19(1 102 Absent without leave .. .. 34 25 20 Offences against discipline .. .. 2 11 II Stowing away .. .. .. 4 3 2 Licensing Act Permitting drunkenness or violent conduct 4 I 1 Selling or supplying liquor to intoxicated 4 I 1 persons Permitting gaming, gambling, &c. .. 2 Selling or supplying liquor, or exposing 595 472 408 for sale, or opening or keeping open premises at unauthorized times Supplying liquor to persons under twenty- 95 54 54 one years Selling or supplying liquor to prohibited 12 7 7 persons Permitting prohibited persons to be on 3 : '..' premises Unlawfully employing females in or about 2 3 3 a bar Employing minors in bars .. . . 2 Illegally supplying liquor to Natives .. 212 142 142 Soiling adulterated liquor .. .. .. 3 3 Obstructing Inspectors or refusing entrance 2 1 I to Inspectors or constables Having or purchasing labels for bottling ,\, 1 I contrary to Act Using bottles with labels more than once 1 . . Breaches of prohibition orders .. .. 278 151 151 Found on licensed premises after closing- 1,429 900 947 hours Refusing to quit licensed premises . . 8 8 8 Selling or exposing liquor for sale without 225 403 103 a license

1942. 1043. ■ it m w q 3 ■ o o « m 8 g l 0^ ' Offences. to to to „ £ O .. O 0-S3 o o " i S'S isi &£§ la il ill nq a . g Licensing Act— continued Found on premises where liquor was seized 103 72 72 under a warrant Offences against provisions in force in no- 117 55 55 license districts .Selling, supplying, or giving liquor to 31 15 15 Maoris in Native licensing districts Offences against provisions of no-license in 33 4 4 Native proclaimed areas ■Supplying liquor to Natives in proclaimed ' 297 240 240 districts Permitting consumption of liquor in restau- 15 18 In rants after hours In possession of liquor in vicinity of dance- 913 816 80S halls, &c. MOTOR-VKHICLES ACT Causing death or bodily injury through 20 ' 27 27 reckless driving Being intoxicated in charge of a motor- 102 104 162 vehicle Reckless or negligent driving .. . . 428 283 282 Other breaches of Act .. .. 5,900 5,040 4,972 Miscellaneous Absconding from State Institutions .. 8 20 20 Bankruptcy offences ... .. .. .. 1 i Brothels or houses of ill fame, keeping, &c. 9 32 MO Children, willfully ill-treating, neglecting, 0 19 ig abandoning, or exposing Deserting or absenting from His Majesty's 72 08 Jg ships Drunk or behaving in a violent or offensive 37 20 o ( ; manner, to., on a railway, &c. Failing to comply with conditions of re- 112 98 QQ lease under Offenders Probation Act Habitual criminals or offenders, breach of 8 6 4 conditions of probationary license Indecent Publications Act,'offences under 14 . 2 2 Opium-smoking, &c. .. .. .. 2 II it Smuggling .. .. , . ]'_ , _ 7 ? Trespassing on railway and refusing to 76 139 L3fl leave, &c.. Arms Act, breaches of .. .. 143 _)()! 198 Second-hand Dealers Act, breaches of .. 20 :; I 34 Distillation Act, breaches of . . . . 4 T(,tilis •• •■ ■■ 34,008 33,192 28,722 Decrease .. .. .. 1,410